createcats command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

createcats: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: createcats: command not found

Solutions to createcats: command not found

How To Fix createcats: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu createcats is provided by vdr-plugin-epgsearch package.

vdr-plugin-epgsearch is:

This plugin for the Linux Video Disc Recorder (VDR) allows searching the EPG (electronic programme guide) data by defining search terms that can permanently be stored in a list for later reuse. It supports regular expressions and is capable of doing fuzzy searches. EPG-Search scans the EPG in background and can automatically create timers for matching search terms. Besides this it supports searching for repetitions, detection of timer conflicts, sending emails on timer events and much more. Search terms can also be added and modified with vdradmin-am, a web frontend for VDR.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install vdr-plugin-epgsearch

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install vdr-plugin-epgsearch.

sudo apt -y install vdr-plugin-epgsearch

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install vdr-plugin-epgsearch

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix createcats command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.